Tendon stem cells enhance regeneration

Re:Tendon stem cells enhance regeneration by MS90 on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @10:47AM (#21639257)

Go slowly getting back into things. I know you know that, but it's worth reiterating. Not because I'm worried you'll hurt yourself, if you've competed you know your body well enough to not to do that, but because I know how frustrating it can be coming back.

I tore one of my left biceps tendons training for an MMA fight about five years ago. When the doctors told me "six month recovery" I didn't understand that they meant six months to start working out like the average person again. That led me to have a lot of frustration during my recovery because I felt like it wasn't happening fast enough. It was closer to 18 months until I was able to perform at the level I did before.

Did you get a graft or just a repair?

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Re:Tendon stem cells enhance regeneration by matwood on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @11:26AM (#21639715)

Sounds similar to when I tore my ACL. It was ~9 months until I was medically healed, but closer to 18 before I was fully back with strength and confidence in my knee.

I did a patellagraft.

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Re:Tendon stem cells enhance regeneration by MS90 on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @04:22PM (#21642858)

Yeah, I had an anterior tibialis from a cadaver grafted onto my biceps tendon ("grafted" in this case really means stitched onto the remnants of mine with metal thread and then bolted into my radius bone). Recovery was long and brutal, but five years later I don't have any issues.

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